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Coughed Up A Hard Piece Of Phlegm

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Dr.  Shuba Hariprasad MD

down. Some relief when I stand up and bend over at the waist and support myself on a piece of furniture. Light coughing / wheezing / small amounts of coughed up white... View answer

Answered by : Dr. Shuba Hariprasad ( General & Family Physician)
Dr. Sumit Bhatti MD

don t have a cough or temp. What s concerning is I ve coughed up balls of blood, initially some extremely sticky, glue-like phlegm (sorry to be so graphic). This evening I coughed... View answer

Answered by : Dr. Sumit Bhatti ( ENT Specialist)
Dr. Sumit Bhatti MD

the size of my finger nail on my pinky finger. Have I just coughed up a tumor or polyp of some sort ... throat. I've tried to cough it up but only phlegm would come out.... View answer

Answered by : Dr. Sumit Bhatti ( ENT Specialist)
Dr. Naveen Kumar MD

the picture I included of what I coughed up. Could mucus really look like a pure piece of raw meat ... approximately half the size of my finger nail on my pinky finger.... View answer

Answered by : Dr. Naveen Kumar ( ENT Specialist)
Dr.   Bonnie Berger-Durnbaugh MD

Hello, I'm a 22 year old female, 5'5, 150 lbs. For about a week, I have had sinus drainage and coughed up phlegm that has a taste similar to hydrogen peroxide . Does this sound... View answer

Answered by : Dr. Bonnie Berger-Durnbaugh ( General & Family Physician)

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Dr. Kaushal Bhavsar MD

like a 1 square of flesh. Then a few hours later, he coughed up a larger piece. Is this something we ... last Thursday. He coughed up phlegm and blood... View answer

Answered by : Dr. Kaushal Bhavsar ( Pulmonologist)
Dr. Madhuri Garg MD

Coughed up stringy phlegm, had mild cough for 3-4 days previously... no fever. Woke up from deep sleep, hard to get breath, coughed up the stringy, or ropy, phlegm. I... View answer

Answered by : Dr. Madhuri Garg ( Anesthesiologist)
Dr. Akhtarhusian Ghausi MD

but have coughed up greenish hard pellets of phlegm all day long. Bad order...previously bronchial reactive airway disease. See my physician tomorrow? I have never been a... View answer

Answered by : Dr. Akhtarhusian Ghausi ( General & Family Physician)
Dr.   Sriram Nathan MD

I coughed up a large chunk of phlegm this morning which was 75% blood. I hadn t coughed hard or forced anything, it just came up when I cleared my throat . My only... View answer

Answered by : Dr. Sriram Nathan ( ENT Specialist)
Dr. Hardik Sanghvi MD

Last night I had a piece of food go down the wrong pipe, I coughed it up after a few hard attempts but caused major pain in my collarbone and shoulder, now anytime I sneeze... View answer

Answered by : Dr. Hardik Sanghvi ( Pathologist and Microbiologist)